what season is it?

Even though I moved from Scotland to New Zealand 20 years ago,I still associate April with SPRING even though down here in the Southern hemisphere it is clearly AUTUMN.

I’ve been thinking this as I watched trees turn brown and kicked through leaves while eating easter eggs.  This was perfect inspiration for the weekly scrapping challenge – this week the challenge was to use yellow and as an extra challenge use elements from one kit. 

I thought this would be easy because I’ve sorted my digi elements by colour.  But I don’t have a yellow category, just orange.  So I browsed blogland and found a free digi kit which was mostly yellow from K Lund. I used a template from paislee pressplate (No 13) and a date stamp from LLL creations and here is the result.

How much yellow do you have in your stash?

preparation for a week in the life project

I’ve decided to play along with Ali Edwards’  a week in the life project this year.  As far as I can tell from reading her posts and looking at some examples, the idea is to record details of daily life for a week.  Doing the project in the same week that she does it means lots of prompts and ideas from her and the online community who are also playing along.  She has chosen April 19-25.

Over the long weekend, one of my projects was to put together the basis for the album that I’m going to use.  I decided to have use plastic page protectors and to do a lot of the writing digitally ontop of the photos.

The cover is purple card and bound with black ribbon

For each day I will lave 4 pages.  1st an A4 photo, printed on card.  Then 4 normal size photos in pockets, perhaps journaling or something else in one of the pockets, perhaps all on a theme.

Then another 4 in the pockets and an A4 photocopy of emails or receipts or lists or other such things from the day.

To decorate it all, give me space to add bits of writing etc I bought a set of black and white stickers – because they will go with everything whatever the colours.  These came from Kikiki the Swedish stationary store.

Looking forward to the start of the project now.  All those empty pockets to fill!

Are you planning on doing a week in the life?  have you done it before?

Photo a day week 13

Wow one quarter of the way through the year and have taken a photo everyday.

1. Mending the tear in my trousers

2. Turning off the lights for Earth Hour

3. Lovely colours at the Bus Depot Market

4. Watching Big Bang Theory

5. First signs of autumn

6. Binding the finished report (result of 5 weeks of work)

7. Look what appeared on my desk

I can

This layout is the result of several ideas that I’ve come across in my blogging over the last week.

Subject prompted by the Designer digitals challenge in ‘all about me’ called ‘I’m so good’.  One of the layouts from the design team listed things I can do.

Template was free as part of the Designer digital template challenge – created by Katie Pertiet

Scrap weekly challenge was to use a grid and I’ve been playing with 12 x 6 pages too.

So it all came together in this layout.  Background is colour and texture from within PSE.  Fonts are Bradley Hand and Rub this.

Words on photos are: memorize things; match colours; speak in public; touch type, heal fast, linedance. 

No particular reason for this list of 6, I jotted down things that came to mind and then cut down that list to this 6 because I then had the idea of using photos of part of me related to the task.

I did try pattern paper – big dots, small dots, flowers, stripes.  But I again found the patterns distracting as the background and so went back to my normal textured solid colour.  This is the first time I’ve used digital stitching and sorry I can’t remember where I picked up this free stitching file.  I am not much more careful at recording sources of digi materials.

What things would you have on your list that you can do?